“Even mocking people helped their face stats. In the reputation economy, the only real way to hurt anyone was to ignore them completely. And it was pretty hard to ignore someone who made your blood boil.”
“there are only so many ways to get rejected or ignored. It doesn't hurt at all anymore because why should someone who's a complete stranger have any control over your sense of selfworth?”
“Pretty girls behave best when you ignore them. Of course, they have to know you are ignoring them, for otherwise they may not even know you exist.”
“Decent people should ignore politics, if only they could be confident that politics would ignore them”
“Ignoring things didn’t make them go away. It only made it harder to face them when they finally came around to beat the shit out of you.”
“Anyone who is ignorant, even a lord and prince, can and should be counted as one of the mob.”